04078nam 2200433 450 991062958820332120230515055845.010.1515/9788395609558(CKB)5590000001000892(NjHacI)995590000001000892(EXLCZ)99559000000100089220230515h20202019 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCulture-bearing Women The Black Women Renaissance and Cultural Nationalism /Izabella PenierWarsaw, Poland :De Gruyter Poland Ltd.,2020.©20191 online resource (220 pages)83-956095-6-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: The Black Women Renaissance, Matrilineal Romances and the "Volkish Tradition" -- 2 Mapping the Black Women's Renaissance: The Formative 1970s and the Shift from a Black Nationalist to a Black Womanist Aesthetic -- 3 Matrifocal Nationalism, Afrocentric Womanism and the Fear of Disinheritance -- 4 Kulturnation: The Black Women's Renaissance, Folk Heritage and the Essential Black Female Matrix -- 5 Volknation: The Black Holocaust and the Poetics of the Slave Sublime -- 6 Culturalism, Classism, and the Politics of Redistribution -- Bibliography -- Index.This study examines the Black Women's Renaissance (BWR) - the flowering of literary talent among African American women at the end of the 20th century. It focuses on the historical and heritage novels of the 1980s and the vexed relationship between black cultural nationalism and black feminism. It argues that when the nation seemingly fell out of fashion, black women writers sought to re-create what Renan called "a soul, a spiritual principle" for their ethnic group. BWR narratives, especially those associated with womanism, appreciated "culture bearing" mothers as cultural reproducers of the nation and transmitters of its values. In this way, the writers of the BWR gave rise to "matrifocal" cultural nationalism that superseded masculine cultural nationalism of the previous decade and made black women, instead of black men, principal agents/carriers of national identity. This monograph argues that even though matrifocal nationalism empowered women, ultimately it was a flawed project. It promoted gender and cultural essentialism, i.e. it glorified black motherhood and mother-daughter bonding and condemned other, more radical models of black female subjectivity. Moreover, the BWR, vivified by middle-class and educated black women, turned readers' attention from more contentious social issues, such as class mobility or wealth redistribution. The monograph compares the cultural nationalist novels of the 1980s with social protest novels written by the same authors in the 1970s and explains the rationale behind the change in their aesthetic and political agenda. It also contrasts novels written by womanist writers (Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor to name just a few) and by African Caribbean immigrant or second-generation writers (Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid and Michelle Cliff) to show that, on the score of cultural nationalism, the BWR was not a monolithic phenomenon. African American and African Caribbean women writers collectively contributed to the flourishing of the BWR, but they did not share the same ideas on black identities, histories, or the question of ethnonational belonging.African American women authorsRace awareness in literatureWomen, Black, in literatureAfrican American women authors.Race awareness in literature.Women, Black, in literature.860.9352208996Penier Izabella891203NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910629588203321Culture-bearing Women2238940UNINA02874nam 22006373u 450 991045099390332120240405062529.00-203-29578-10-203-13355-21-134-82251-081-7835-601-51-280-32819-31-134-82253-71-134-82254-5(CKB)1000000000249637(EBL)179779(OCoLC)229925436(MiAaPQ)EBC179779(EXLCZ)99100000000024963720130418d2002|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEnvironment and History The taming of nature in the USA and South Africa1st ed.Hoboken Taylor and Francis20021 online resource (133 p.)Historical ConnectionsDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-15457-1 0-415-11468-3 Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of maps; Series editors' preface; Preface; The nature of environmental history: the United States and South Africa compared; The comparison; The frontier environment; Hunting and animals: from game to wildlife; Settler hunting; Hunting controls; The fall and rise of trees: forests, felling and forestry; Trees and people; Forestry and conservation; Agriculture: exploitation unlimited and limited; The conservationist state; Nature reserves and national parks: revaluing and renaturing the wild; Biocentrism and park politicsFrom conservation to environmentalism and beyondRace, environmentalism and social inequality; Postscript: taming the wild; IndexThe influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems is particularly striking in the new worlds into which Europeans have expanded over the past five hundred years. Using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, Beinart and Coates examine this neglected aspect of the history of settler incursion and dominance in two frontier nations, the USA and South Africa. They also seek to explain change in indigenous ideas and practices towards the environment, and discuss the rise of popular environmentalism up to the present day.Historical ConnectionsHistoryManNatureNatureHistory.Man.Nature.Nature.333.709333.9/13/0973Beinart William147053Coates Peter A.1957-598912AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910450993903321Environment and History2017945UNINA